Images of desperate passengers at airports seeing their travel plans cut due to flight cancellations and delays will continue to be the dominant trend this August.. Ryanair cabin crew (TCP) strike continues From 8 August, with pauses from Monday to Thursday. And on EasyJet, after making peace with the TCP of their base in Spain, protest of its pilots since now 12. Meanwhile, at Vueling, the cabin crew staged a demonstration outside their Barcelona headquarters for this Tuesday and air traffic controllers They’ve already warned that their “patience” is running out, and their unions are proposing actions for this month, the USCA warns.
The panorama, which confirmed a hot August at Spanish airports due to the labor demands of industry employees seeking improvements in their contracts, which they left parked due to the pandemic, regrouped them with the revival of tourism. In addition, there is a general chaos at European airports due to staff shortages or strikes at both airlines and airports. Lufthansa pilotsafter voting in favor of runner-up on Sunday, although the dates have yet to be determined.
The most violent conflict in the Spanish air sector, Ryanair cabin crewfar from being resolved will spread until January 2023, as announced by unions USO and Sitcpla, which met last week. These strikes meet every week from Monday to Thursday. The centers denounced the Irish airline’s rejection of dialogue while “not showing the slightest attempt at approach”. In addition to their demands – the implementation of Spanish legislation in labor and union matters, such as respecting the exercise of the right to strike at eleven bases in Spain – the reinstatement of eleven workers fired in June and July. strikes are added, and arrests and disciplinary proceedings are opened against hundreds of TCPs.
Inside easy jet The protest is now led by its pilots, who demand the same conditions as cabin crew in other countries where the company operates. through Sepla a three-day strike call on weekends, the first one is on Fridays 12, 13 and 14 August; They will continue at 19, 20 and 21 and 27, 28 and 29. It aims to improve working conditions before the pandemic and negotiate the second collective agreement.
Another conflict that threatens air traffic is that of controllers. Since USCAmajority union announced last week will initiate “union actions” this august, in the face of non-compliance with recently agreed Foreign Minister Isabel Pardo de Vera. At the end of June, union delegates met in Barcelona and reached a ceasefire with the ministry. Now they warn that “there is no room for negotiation in the face of deception”; they condemn the “endemic shortage” of staff and aging staff. and demanded a new deal.